The most common first letter in a word in order of frequency T, O, A, W, B, C, D, S, F, M, R, H, I, Y, E, G, L, N, O, U, J, K The most common second letter in a word in order of frequency H, O, E, I, A, U, N, R, T The most common third letter in a word in order of frequency E, S, A, R, N, I The most common last letter in a word in order of frequency E, S, T, D, N, R, Y, F, L, O, G, H, A, K, M, P, U, W More than half of all words end with Letters most likely to follow E in order of frequency The most common digraphs on order of frequency TH, HE, AN, IN, ER, ON, RE, ED, ND, HA, AT, EN, ES, OF, NT, EA, TI, TO, IO, LE, IS, OU, AR, AS, DE, RT, VE The most common trigraphs in order of frequency THE, AND, THA, ENT, ION

, TIO, FOR, NDE, HAS, NCE, TIS, OFT, MEN The most common double letters in order of frequency SS, EE, TT, FF, LL, MM, OO The most common two-letter words in order of frequency of, to, in, it, is, be, as, at, so, we, he, by, or, on, do, if, me, my, up, an, go, no, us, am The most common three-letter words in order of frequency the, and, for, are, but, not, you, all, any, can, had, her, was, one, our, out, day, get, has, him, his, how, man, new, now, old, see, two, way, who, boy, did, its, let, put, say, she, too, use The most common four-letter words in order of frequency That, with, have, this, will, your, from, they, know, want, been, good, much, some, time, very, when, come, here, just, like, long, make, many, more, only, over, such, take, than

, them, well, were The most commonly used words in the English language in order of frequency The, of, and, to, in, a, is, that, be, it, by, are, for, was, as, he, with, on, his, at, which, but, from, has, this, will, one, have, not, were, or, all, their, an, I, there, been, many, more, so, when, had, may, today, who, would, time, we, about, after, dollars, if, my, other, some, them, being, its, no, only, over, very, you, into, most, than, they, day, even, made, out, first, great, must, these, can, days, every, found, general, her, here, last, new, now, people, public, said, since, still, such, through, under, up, war, well, where, while, years, before, between, country, debts, good, him, interest, large, like, make, our, take, upon, what What is the Most Commonly Used Letter in English?

What is the Most Commonly Used Letter in English? Last Modified Date: 11 December 2016 Copyright Protected: 10 most extreme places on Earth The most commonly used letter in the English language is the letter “e”. This is the case in the general language, in fiction and non-fiction writings, journalism, religious works like the Bible, and even in Morse code . The most common consonant in English is “t.” With “e” being so common in the English language, one would think that it would start the most words. Actually “t” begins the most words, followed by “o.” “E” is the letter which most commonly occurs third in a word, and is the third most common second letter in a word. The most common second letter in a word in English is h. Actually, “e” is far down the list of English word beginners, and comes in at the 15th place.

The five most common letters beginning words are “t,” “o,” “a,” “w,” and “b.” Approximately half of the words in the English language end with the letters “e,” “t,” “d,” and “s” with the greatest share of words ending in “e.” Further, there are four letters most likely to follow “e" in a word. These are “r,” “s,” “n,” and “d.” Ironically, of the most common words with two letters in the English language, only three words actually have an “e.” They are be, we, and me. As well, in the top twenty most frequently written English words, only three words have an “e.” These are “the,” the most frequently used word in the English language, and “he” and “be.” However, when one analyzes most frequently used three-letter words, “e” gets a fairer share. When teaching children spelling, it can be fun to play a game with them, where one says only words that do not contain an “e.” It is pretty difficult to get through more than a few sentences without a slip. The “e” is fairly indispensable.

For example, this article alone contains 193 of them. I have also used the most common diphthong “th” 63 times, and the most common consonant “t” 151 times. Ad The letter "c" is where in this discussion? anon172651 in english, what two letters together, end most words? anon135946 Post 22 Aren't there four two letter words with 'e' which include: be, me, we, and especially, he. anon101402 Post 19 E is the most commonly used vowel in the English alphabet, while T is the most commonly used consonant in the English alphabet. A is the second most common vowel while consonants' runner up is N. R, D and S are also close. I just recognize this frequency process when i solve codewords, arrowwords, etc. anon88225 Post 18 #14, the article states of the most common two-letter words, only three have the letter "e". He is not one of the most common english two-letter words apparently.

anon76539 Post 17 10, your forgetting the fact that a dictionary contains not only words but several lines of definitions as well, so testing the thickness of a few dictionary pages proves nothing. anon72587 Thanks. i needed that for art class! anon68075 Post 14 is "he" not a word anymore? surely that is a two letter word ending in "e" as well as the other three. what? anon62346 Post 13 Number 12, We aren't talking about greek gods of ancient civilisations. We are talking about the english language and definitely not greek. anon55359 Post 12 This is incredibly inaccurate. If you look back to the Greek gods of the ancient civilizations, 'Z' is in fact, the most commonly used letter. anon53145 Post 11 comment number 10, I believe you are neglecting to consider that the article above says that T is the most common letter to start off words in the english language. How many times a day do you use the word "the?" Several I am sure.

The article is only trying to prove that the letter "T" is used more often to begin a word, it never excludes the fact that the same word can be counted numerous times. Also, just for the the thought, consider the number of times I have used the letter "t" in this comment (within or to begin a word) vs. the letter "s". :) anon52949 Post 10 This is way off base. "S" is definitely the most commonly used letter. Don't believe me? Take out your favorite dictionary and hold the entire s-section together. Now while still holding this section together hold the entire T-section together. You will observe that S is significantly thicker. According to a computer analysis of words in the Moby Dictionary, T is more in the middle of the list, than anywhere near the top. If you don't trust it, do the dictionary test for yourself. anon50213 anon45040 Post 6 Just being pedantic here, but the English 'this not a diphthong. A diphthong refers to a pair of vowels pronounced as a single sound.

One vowel glides to the next as the mouth and tongue change position, resulting in what is called a 'contour vowel'. See words like "eye", "voice" and "sound" for examples of diphthongs. The sound referred to in the article is actually a dental fricative. English uses both a voiced dental fricative, ð, as well as the voiceless dental fricative, θ. the voiced consonant appears in words such as "there", and the voiceless fricative appears in words like "through". Palangkaraya That's why US should invade and annex Quebec. dudla Post 4 Anon13878 - I think N is the second most common consonant in English, followed by S. Did you know that Q is the only letter in the English alphabet that is not in the name of a US state?

anon13878 Letter & Word Frequency in English / Other Language Frequencies Swedish Language Letter Frequency: e a n t r s l i d o m g k v ä h f u p å ö b c j y x w z é q (à è) Portuguese: a e o s r i n m d u t l c p h v q g f b ã z ç j á é x ó õ ê ô à y í è ú o` (kw) Norwegian: e r n t s i l a k o d g m v f u p b h ø j y a a æ c w z x (q) Icelandic: a n r i e s t u dh l g m k f h v o á th í d j ó b y æ ú ö p é ý c x w z q Hungarian: e a t l n s k o m z r i g á é y d b v h j o: f u p ö ó c u: í ú ü x w (q) Slovak: a o e s n i t r v l k d m c u p z y h j g f b (q w x) Finnish: e n a t r s i l d o

 k g m v f aa u p h ä c b ö j y x z w (q) Danish: e n a d t r s l g i o h m k v u f b p ø ae j y c é x q w è z ü à ó ê ç aa ë ä Czech: o e a n t i v l s r d k u p í m c h á z y j b ř ê é ĉ ž ý ŝ ũ g f ú ň w ď ó x ť (q) Hawaiian: a i k o' e n u h l m â p ô w ê û î (b c d f g j q r s t v x y z) Maori: a i k e t o n u h r m w g p (b c d f j l q s v x y z) Latin: e i t u a s r n o m c p l d q b g v f h x y k (z) (j w) Irish: a i h n r e t s c o l d g u m b á f í é ú ó p v j w y k q z (x) Welsh: a y n d r

 e i l o g h w t f u s c m b p â ô y^ w^ j ï ê á q v î (k x z) Gaelic: a i h n d e r c s g l o u t m b à f p o` ù é i` è ó (j k q v w x y z) Most Common Letters in the Alphabet Used in the English Language | ListAfterList Most Common Letters in the Alphabet Used in the English Language Posted on March 9, 2014, in Education , Entertainment , Everything Else , Life , with 0 Comments According to a study done by AskOxford, using thier Concise English Dictionary, these are the most common letters in the English language.

The letter "E" is the most common, 57 times more common than the letter "Q." (rounded percentages) E - 57 The alphabet used to have other letters -- meet two | Dictionary.com Blog October 11, 2010 by: Dictionary.com 449 Comments The English alphabet , as you likely know, is made up of 26 letters. But it wasn’t always that way. Before we get to which letters were late additions, let’s explain a bit about Old English . English was first written in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc runic alphabet, also known as Anglo-Saxon. The Angles and Saxons came from Germany and settled in Britain in the fifth century. The region they inhabited became known as “ Angle-land ,” or “ England .” Eventually, Christian missionaries introduced the Latin alphabet , which ultimately replaced Anglo-Saxon. But for some time, the alphabet included the letters of the Latin alphabet, some symbols (like the ampersand ), and some letters of Old English . As Modern English evolved, the Old English letters were dropped or replaced.

(Our trusty alphabet isn’t the only part of language that has changed — October used to be the eighth month, and September the seventh . What happened? Find out here .) Here’s an example: In Old English, a letter called “ thorn ” represented the “th” sound (as in “that”) in Modern English. In the Latin alphabet, the “ y ” was the symbol that most closely resembled the character that represented thorn. So, thorn was dropped and “y” took its place. (But is “y” a vowel or a consonant ? We explore the dilemma here .) That is why the word “ ye ,” as in “Ye Olde Booke Shoppe,” is an archaic spelling of “the.” The Old English letter “ wynn ” was replaced by “uu,” which eventually developed into the modern w . (It really is a double u.) The letters “ u ” and “ j ” didn’t join what we know as the alphabet until the sixteenth century. 12 Letters That Didn't Make the Alphabet | Mental Floss 12 Letters That Didn't Make the Alphabet ThinkStock Like us on Facebook You know the alphabet. It’s one of the first things you’re taught in school.

But did you know that they’re not teaching you all of the alphabet? There are quite a few letters we tossed aside as our language grew, and you probably never even knew they existed. 1. Thorn Have you ever seen a place that calls itself “ye olde whatever”? As it happens, that’s not a “y”, or, at least, it wasn’t supposed to be. Originally, it was an entirely different letter called thorn , which derived from the Old English runic alphabet, Futhark. Thorn, which was pronounced exactly like the "th" in its name, is actually still around today in Icelandic. We replaced it with “th” over time—thorn fell out of use because Gothic-style scripting made the letters y and thorn look practically identical. And, since French printing presses didn’t have thorn anyway, it just became common to replace it with a y. Hence naming things like, “Ye Olde Magazine of Interesting Facts” (just as an example, of course). 2. Wynn Another holdover from the Futhark runic alphabet, wynn was adapted to the Latin alphabet because it didn’t have a letter that quite fit the “w” sound that was common in English.

You could stick two u’s (technically v’s, since Latin didn’t have u either) together, like in equus, but that wasn’t exactly right. Over time, though, the idea of sticking two u’s together actually became quite popular, enough so that they literally became stuck together and became the letter W (which, you’ll notice, is actually two V’s). 3. Yogh Yogh stood for a sort of throaty noise that was common in Middle English words that sounded like the "ch" in "Bach" or Scottish "loch." French scholars weren’t fans of our weird non-Latin letters and started replacing all instances of yogh with “gh” in their texts. When the throaty sound turned into "f" in Modern English, the "gh"s were left behind." 4. Ash You’re probably familiar with this guy from old-fashioned Greek or Roman style text, especially the kind found in churches. It’s even still used stylistically in words today, like æther and æon. What you may not know, however, is that at one time the ae grapheme (as it’s now known) was an honorary English letter back in the days of Old English.

It still had the same pronunciation and everything, it was just considered to be part of the alphabet and called “ æ sc” or “ash” after the ash Futhark rune, for which it was used as a substitute when transcribing into Latin letters. 5. Eth Eth is kind of like the little brother to thorn. Originating from Irish, it was meant to represent a slightly different pronunciation of the “th” sound, more like that in “thought” or “thing” as opposed to the one found in “this” or “them.” (The first is the voiceless dental fricative, the second is the voiced dental fricative). Note that, depending on your regional accent, there may not be much of a difference (or any at all) in the two pronunciations anyway, but that’s Modern English. Back in the old days, the difference was much more distinct. As such, you’d often see texts with both eth and thorn depending on the required pronunciation . Before too long, however, people just began using thorn for both (and later “th”) and so eth slowly became unnecessary. 6.

Ampersand Today we just use it for stylistic purposes (and when we’ve run out of space in a text message or tweet), but the ampersand has had a long and storied history in English, and was actually frequently included as a 27th letter of the alphabet as recently as the 19th century. In fact, it’s because of its placement in the alphabet that it gets its name. Originally, the character was simply called “and” or sometimes “et” (from the Latin word for and, which the ampersand is usually stylistically meant to resemble). However, when teaching children the alphabet, the & was often placed at the end, after Z, and recited as “and per se and,” meaning “and in and of itself” or “and standing on its own.” So you’d have “w, x, y, z, and, per se, and.” Over time, the last bit morphed into “ampersand,” and it stuck even after we quit teaching it as part of the alphabet. 7.

Insular G This letter (referred to as “insular G” or “Irish G” because it didn’t have a fancy, official name) is sort of the grandfather of the Middle English version of yogh. Originally an Irish letter, it was used for the previously mentioned zhyah/jhah pronunciation that was later taken up by yogh , though for a time both were used. It also stood alongside the modern G (or Carolingian G) for many centuries, as they represented separate sounds. The Carolingian G was used for hard G sounds, like growth or good, yogh was used for “ogh” sounds, like cough or tough, and insular g was used for words like measure or vision. As Old English transformed into Middle English, insular G was combined with yogh and, as mentioned earlier, was slowly replaced with the now-standard “gh” by scribes, at which point insular G/yogh were no longer needed and the Carolingian G stood alone (though the insular G is still used in modern Irish). 8.

“That” Much like the way we have a symbol/letter for “and,” we also once had a similar situation with “that,” which was a letter thorn with a stroke at the top. It was originally just a shorthand, an amalgamation of thorn and T (so more like “tht”), but it eventually caught on and got somewhat popular in its own right (even outliving thorn itself), especially with religious institutions. There’s an excellent chance you can find this symbol somewhere around any given church to this day. 9. Ethel Similar to Æ/ash/æsc above, the digraph for OE was once considered to be a letter as well , called ethel. It wasn’t named after someone’s dear, sweet grandmother, but the Furthark rune Odal, as œ was its equivalent in transcribing. It was traditionally used in Latin loan words with a long e sound, such as subpœna or fœtus. Even federal was once spelled with an ethel. (Fœderal.) These days, we’ve just replaced it with a simple e. 10.

Tironian “Ond” Long before there were stenographers, a Roman by the name of Marcus Tullius Tiro (who was basically Roman writer Cicero’s P.A.) invented a shorthand system called Tironian notes. It was a fairly simple system that was easily expanded, so it remained in use by scribes for centuries after Tiro’s death . One of the most useful symbols (and an ancestor to the ampersand) was the “et” symbol above—a simple way of tossing in an “and.” (And yes, it was sometimes drawn in a way that’s now a popular stylistic way of drawing the number 7.) When used by English scribes, it became known as “ond,” and they did something very clever with it. If they wanted to say “bond,” they’d write a B and directly follow it with a Tironian ond.

For a modern equivalent, it’d be like if you wanted to say your oatmeal didn’t have much flavor and you wrote that it was “bl&.” The trend grew popular beyond scribes practicing shorthand and it became common to see it on official documents and signage, but since it realistically had a pretty limited usage and could occasionally be confusing, it eventually faded away. 11. Long S You may have seen this in old books or other documents, like the title page from Paradise Lost above. Sometimes the letter s will be replaced by a character that looks a bit like an f. This is what’s known as a “long s,” which was an early form of a lowercase s. And yet the modern lowercase s (then referred to as the “short s”) was still used according to a complicated set of rules (but most usually seen at the end of a word), which led to many words (especially plurals) using both. For example, ?uper?titous is how the word superstitious would have been printed. It was purely a stylistic lettering, and didn’t change the pronunciation at all.

It was also kind of silly and weird, since no other letters behaved that way, so around the beginning of the 19th century, the practice was largely abandoned and the modern lowercase s became king. 12. Eng For this particular letter, we can actually point to its exact origin. It was invented by a scribe named Alexander Gill the Elder in the year 1619 and meant to represent a velar nasal , which is found at the end of words like king, ring, thing, etc. Gill intended for the letter to take the place of ng entirely (thus bringing would become bri?i?), and while it did get used by some scribes and printers, it never really took off—the Carolingian G was pretty well-established at that time and the language was beginning to morph into Modern English, which streamlined the alphabet instead of adding more to it. Eng did manage live on in the International Phonetic Alphabet, however.

English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited or ETAOIN SRHLDCU ETAOIN SRHLDCU Introduction On December 17th 2012, I got a nice letter from Mark Mayzner , a retired 85-year-old researcher who studied the frequency of letter combinations in English words in the early 1960s. His 1965 publication has been cited in hundreds of articles. Mayzner describes his work: I culled a corpus of 20,000 words from a variety of sources, e.g., newspapers, magazines, books, etc. For each source selected, a starting place was chosen at random. In proceeding forward from this point, all three, four, five, six, and seven-letter words were recorded until a total of 200 words had been selected. This procedure was duplicated 100 times, each time with a different source, thus yielding a grand total of 20,000 words.

This sample broke down as follows: three-letter words, 6,807 tokens, 187 types; four-letter words, 5,456 tokens, 641 types; five-letter words, 3,422 tokens, 856 types; six-letter words, 2,264 tokens, 868 types; seven-letter words, 2,051 tokens, 924 types. I then proceeded to construct tables that showed the frequency counts for three, four, five, six, and seven-letter words, but most importantly, broken down by word length and letter position, which had never been done before to my knowledge. and he wonders if: perhaps your group at Google might be interested in using the computing power that is now available to significantly expand and produce such tables as I constructed some 50 years ago, but now using the Google Corpus Data, not the tiny 20,000 word sample that I used. The answer is: yes indeed, I am interested! And it will be a lot easier for me than it was for Mayzner.

Working 60s-style, Mayzner had to gather his collection of text sources, then go through them and select individual words, punch them on Hollerith cards , and use a card-sorting machine . Here's what we can do with today's computing power (using publicly available data and the processing power of my own personal computer; I'm not relying on access to corporate computing power): I consulted the Google books Ngrams raw data set, which gives word counts of the number of times each word is mentioned (broken down by year of publication) in the books that have been scanned by Google. I downloaded the English Version 20120701 "1-grams" (that is, word counts) from that data set given as the files "a" to "z" (that is, to I unzipped each file; the result is 23 GB of text (so don't try to download them on your phone). I then condensed these entries, combining the counts for all years, and for different capitalizations: "word", "Word" and "WORD" were all recorded under "WORD". I discarded any entry that used a character other than the 26 letters A-Z.

I also discarded any word with fewer than 100,000 mentions. (If you want you can download the word count file ; note that it is 1.5 MB.) I generated tables of counts, first for words, then for letters and letter sequences, keyed off of the positions and word lengths. Word Counts My distillation of the Google books data gives us 97,565 distinct words, which were mentioned 743,842,922,321 times (37 million times more than in Mayzner's 20,000-mention collection). Each distinct word is called a "type" and each mention is called a "token." To no surprise, the most common word is "the".

Here are the top 50 words, with their counts (in billions of mentions) and their overall percentage (looking like a Zipf distribution): WORD COUNT PERCENT bar graph the 53.10 B 7.14% the of 30.97 B 4.16% of and 22.63 B 3.04% and to 19.35 B 2.60% to in 16.89 B 2.27% in a 15.31 B 2.06% a is 8.38 B 1.13% is that 8.00 B 1.08% that for 6.55 B 0.88% for it 5.74 B 0.77% it as 5.70 B 0.77% as was 5.50 B 0.74% was with 5.18 B 0.70% with be 4.82 B 0.65% be by 4.70 B 0.63% by on 4.

59 B 0.62% on not 4.52 B 0.61% not he 4.11 B 0.55% he i 3.88 B 0.52% i this 3.83 B 0.51% this are 3.70 B 0.50% are or 3.67 B 0.49% or his 3.61 B 0.49% his from 3.47 B 0.47% from at 3.41 B 0.46% at which 3.14 B 0.42% which but 2.79 B 0.38% but have 2.78 B 0.37% have an 2.73 B 0.37% an had 2.62 B 0.35% had they 2.46 B 0.33% they you 2.34 B 0.31% you were 2.27 B 0.31% were their 2.15 B 

0.29% their one 2.15 B 0.29% one all 2.06 B 0.28% all we 2.06 B 0.28% we can 1.67 B 0.22% can her 1.63 B 0.22% her has 1.63 B 0.22% has there 1.62 B 0.22% there been 1.62 B 0.22% been if 1.56 B 0.21% if more 1.55 B 0.21% more when 1.52 B 0.20% when will 1.49 B 0.20% will would 1.47 B 0.20% would who 1.46 B 0.20% who so 1.45 B 0.19% so no 1.40 B 0.19% no Word Lengths And here is the breakdown of mentions (in millions) by word length (looking like a Poisson distribution).

The average is 4.79 letters per word, and 80% are between 2 and 7 letters long: LEN COUNT PERCENT bar graph 1 22301.22 M 2.998% 1 2 131293.85 M 17.651% 2 3 152568.38 M 20.511% 3 4 109988.33 M 14.787% 4 5 79589.32 M 10.700% 5 6 62391.21 M 8.388% 6 7 59052.66 M 7.939% 7 8 44207.29 M 5.943% 8 9 33006.93 M 4.437% 9 10 22883.84 M 3.076% 10 11 

13098.06 M 1.761% 11 12 7124.15 M 0.958% 12 13 3850.58 M 0.518% 13 14 1653.08 M 0.222% 14 15 565.24 M 0.076% 15 16 151.22 M 0.020% 16 17 72.81 M 0.010% 17 18 28.62 M 0.004% 18 19 8.51 M 0.001% 19 20 6.35 M 0.001% 20 21 0.13 M 0.000% 21 22 0.81 M 0.000% 22 23 0.32 M 0.0

00% 23 Here is the distribution for distinct words (that is, counting each word only once regardless of how many times it is mentioned).

Now the average is 7.60 letters long, and 80% are between 4 and 10 letters long: LEN COUNT PERCENT bar graph 1 26 0.027% 1 2 662 0.679% z Two-Letter Sequence (Bigram) Counts Now we turn to sequences of letters: consecutive letters anywhere within a word.

In the list below are the 50 most frequent two-letter sequences (which are called "bigrams"): BI COUNT PERCENT bar graph TH 100.3 B (3.56%) TH HE 86.7 B (3.07%) HE IN 68.6 B (2.43%) IN ER 57.8 B (2.05%) ER AN 56.0 B (1.99%) AN RE 52.3 B (1.85%) RE ON 49.6 B (1.76%) ON AT 41.9 B (1.49%) AT EN 41.0 B (1.45%) EN ND 38.1 B (1.35%) ND TI 37.9 B (1.34%) TI ES 37.8 B (1.34%) ES OR 36.0 B (1.28%) OR TE 34.0 B (1.20%) TE OF 33.1 B (1.17%) OF ED 32.9 B (1.17%) ED IS 3

1.8 B (1.13%) IS IT 31.7 B (1.12%) IT AL 30.7 B (1.09%) AL AR 30.3 B (1.07%) AR ST 29.7 B (1.05%) ST TO 29.4 B (1.04%) TO NT 29.4 B (1.04%) NT NG 26.9 B (0.95%) NG SE 26.3 B (0.93%) SE HA 26.1 B (0.93%) HA AS 24.6 B (0.87%) AS OU 24.5 B (0.87%) OU IO 23.5 B (0.83%) IO LE 23.4 B (0.83%) LE VE 23.3 B (0.83%) VE CO 22.4 B (0.79%) CO ME 22.4 B (0.79%) ME DE 21.6 B (0.76%) DE HI 21.5 B

 (0.76%) HI RI 20.5 B (0.73%) RI RO 20.5 B (0.73%) RO IC 19.7 B (0.70%) IC NE 19.5 B (0.69%) NE EA 19.4 B (0.69%) EA RA 19.3 B (0.69%) RA CE 18.4 B (0.65%) CE LI 17.6 B (0.62%) LI CH 16.9 B (0.60%) CH LL 16.3 B (0.58%) LL BE 16.2 B (0.58%) BE MA 15.9 B (0.57%) MA SI 15.5 B (0.55%) SI OM 15.4 B (0.55%) OM UR 15.3 B (0.54%) UR Below is a table of all 26 × 26 = 676 bigrams; in each cell the orange bar is proportional to the frequency, and if you hover you can

 see the exact counts and percentage.

There are only seven bigrams that do not occur among the 2.8 trillion mentions: JQ, QG, QK, QY, QZ, WQ, and WZ. If you look closely you see they are shown as deleted ZZ N-Letter Sequences (N-grams) What are the most common n-letter sequences (called "n-grams") for various values of n? You can see the 50 most common for each value of n from 1 to 9 in the table below. The counts and percentages are not shown, but don't worry -- you'll get lots of counts in the next section.

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You will be able to get counts for, say, the number of times the bigram "he" appears in positions 2 through 3 of 4-letter words, for example. This is the kind of tables provided by Mayzner, but with 37 million times more data (and with a few more columns). The tables are large, so we present them in separate files; for each n-gram length from n=1 to n=9, we offer a Google Fusion Table file; you can browse the table online, or download it (with the "File > Download" menu item). We also offer all the files rolled up into a .zip file, or in a fusion table folder: N

Question: What letter is used the most in the English language
Answer: E